drowning sorrows with booze...

oh yes, i lost my job. and not b/c my boss read my rant on this blogger :) nope, the deal that was supposed to go thru on fri, the 21st didn't happen and fidelity backed out of it. so, that weekend we all knew we were screwed, we just didn't know how soon. some of us joked that the doors would be locked on monday and wondered if we'd have a job on monday, but i think we all thought we had at least a few weeks if not more as the 1031 dept was the only profitable one. well, no, that was not to be the case and last monday i walked in to work as normal after receiving an email on my bberry that said everything was business as usual.... well someone should be shot for sending us that one b/c while apparently the rest of the company has time left, the 1031 dept up and closed its doors and i learned i no longer had a job. happy thanksgiving!! so, we all packed up and left. i really liked my coworkers so it was pretty darn sad. i think we were all just in total shock. so, there it is... apparently while our ceo was telling us everything was ok, it really wasn't and the company was in the shitter. and i'm guessing the rest of the employees that still have jobs will soon find themselves without one as well as the landamerica name is now completely trash. so when my friends heard about my day, they immediately said how about happy hour?! so some of us went to vines and drank a lot of wine and ate some food. megan found us a great mon night place with deals so it would be cheap - vines has 1/2 off night on mondays! half off everything including wine. it was a fun night, but i woke up with quite the hangover and then left for houston early on tuesday morning to start the t'giving holiday.